Man willing to sort through landfill to find $90M worth of lost Bitcoins

What would you be willing to do for 90 million dollars (potentially more)? For James Howells the answer is "just about anything," including scouring a landfill searching for his long lost Bitcoins.

Ethereum up more than 300% in a single month

The Bitcoin phenomenon is back, but this time applied to the digital currency Ethereum, that is up more than 300% in less than a month.

uTorrent now installs a hiden bitcoin miner in your computer

The Bitcoin craze may have passed, but there are still lots of people making a lot of money with it, and now it seems uTorrent is pitching in, using your computer to help them make money - even though you may not even know about it.

$27 in Bitcoins turn man into millionaire 4 years later

We've all read about how much money we could have if instead of buying a laptop a decade ago we bought Apple stock, or Google's, or a few other tech companies. But even then, that would require you to spend several thousand dollars, and even if today you'd have several times that amount, you'd still be quite far from being a millionaire. But there are cases where even a few bucks could in fact do that for you... as Christopher Koch found out.

Four years ago, Christopher Koch has writing is thesis about encryption when he decided to buy 5000 bitcoins for $27 (under the disapproving eyes of his girlfriend, who though he was just throwing it away). Christopher never gave it much though about it, until recently he remembered his old bitcoin loot and decided to track it down and see how much they were worth.

You can imagine his surprise when he found out that his $27 aquisition for 5000 Bitcoins was worth over $880,000 - and that's according to last April valuation. Today, it's actually worth over $1 million!

I know that looking back on this kind of stuff it's easy to "imagine how much money you could have made". But even so... can you wonder being somewhat crazy and decided to put $2700 in Bitcoins just four years ago? You'd be looking at an earth shattering $100 million return today.

... That's sure to make a lot of people look at digital currency in a completely different way!